105: The Beatles and Google

I am the EggPod

Arts, History, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 467 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Google Data Editor, Simon Rogers, examines what Beatles fans across the globe are searching for. The latest trends, the most searched songs and albums, the most-asked questions - and much more.

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0:00.0	One, two, three, four.
0:04.0	Yeah.
0:05.0	Yeah. Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpot with me Chris Shaw.
0:33.2	The Eggpot to take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing the Beatles and solo
0:37.0	Beatle albums
0:37.6	with a popery of delicious guests. In this episode, I'm joined by data journalist and data
0:42.5	editor at Google, Simon Rogers. Hello. Hi, Chris. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on.
0:48.1	We've been on the hottest day of the year. I know. I left California and come to, I'm in
0:53.8	Bedford right now, and it's, yeah, incredibly hot. Amazing.
0:58.2	Yeah. Before we start, I've got to ask, when did you discover the Beatles?
1:02.9	So, it's hard to remember a time when the Beatles weren't a part of my life.
1:07.6	Though my earliest kind of conscious memory, I guess, is my parents had a lot of
1:12.6	the albums as well. And I can remember the white album going on. And the reason I know it was a white
1:17.2	album is because the Apple. And it must have been side once, therefore it must have been back
1:22.1	the USSR and the jet sound. And I can remember dancing around as I must be like three or four so literally
1:29.2	it's my first memory is is of the Beatles and yeah my parents had like I'm sorry dad I saw I
1:36.9	have now some of his original album so you know like got your first edition of Revolver and
1:42.1	and so on sitting in the house
1:45.4	and so yeah so they've always been there
1:47.6	and I guess I kind of
1:50.1	they were just like I suppose they were more background
1:52.3	to me until when
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